What's Next for Open Source?: Full Schedule

July 11, 2024
New York City, New York
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8:30am EDT

Continental Breakfast

Thursday July 11, 2024 8:30am - 9:00am EDT

Special Events/Exhibits/Breaks

8:30am EDT

Registration + Badge Pick-up

Thursday July 11, 2024 8:30am - 9:00am EDT

Special Events/Exhibits/Breaks

9:00am EDT

Keynote: Imagination & Cooperation - Nithya Ruff, Head of the Amazon Open Source Program Office, Amazon & Ruth Suehle, EVP, Apache Software Foundation & Director of Open Source, SAS

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:00am - 9:10am EDT

Central Park West 6501

Speakers

Ruth Suehle

EVP, Apache Software Foundation & Director of Open Source, SAS

Ruth Suehle is Director of Open Source at SAS, where she is creating a nearly 50-year-old analytics, data management, and AI software company’s first open source program office. Ruth has helped build open source communities for nearly two decades, much of which she spent in the... Read More →

Nithya Ruff

Chair, Board of Directors / Head, Open Source Program Office, The Linux Foundation / Amazon

Nithya A. Ruff recently joined Amazon as the Head of Amazon’s Open Source Program Office. Amazon is guided by four principles: Customer Obsession, Invent and Simplify, and Think Big; especially as they relate to the engagement, contribution, and participation in the broader Open... Read More →

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:00am - 9:10am EDT
Central Park West 6501

Keynote Sessions

9:10am EDT

Keynote: What's Next For Open Source - Amandeep Singh Gill, Under-Secretary General, United Nations

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:10am - 9:15am EDT

Central Park West 6501

Speakers

Amandeep Singh Gill

Under-Secretary General, United Nations

Mr. Gill is the Chief Executive Officer of the International Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Research Collaborative (I-DAIR) project, based at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. A thought leader on digital technology, he brings to... Read More →

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:10am - 9:15am EDT
Central Park West 6501

Keynote Sessions

9:15am EDT

Keynote: PyLadies Community - Paloma Oliviera, Software Engineer, Sauce Labs OSPO

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:15am - 9:20am EDT

Speakers

Paloma Oliviera

Software Engineer, Sauce Labs OSPO

Wholehearted explorer, full stack software engineer, curator and artists critically thinking code as a powerful creative tool to reshape our present and future, and preserve human access to democracy, accessibility, equity and sustainability. Open source philosophy and social justice... Read More →

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:15am - 9:20am EDT

Keynote Sessions

9:20am EDT

Keynote: Infrastructure & Missions - Ben Cerveny, President, Foundation for Public Code & Jacob Green, Co-founder, OSPO++

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:20am - 9:25am EDT

Central Park West 6501

Speakers

Ben Cerveny

President, Foundation for Public Code

Founder and President, Foundation for Public Code. Helping public administrations collaboratively build open digital public infrastructure. Maintaining the Standard for Public Code. Working to build sustainable governance and production models around public codebases.

Jacob Green

Co-founder, OSPO++

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:20am - 9:25am EDT
Central Park West 6501

Keynote Sessions

9:25am EDT

Keynote: Connected & Cooperating OSPOs: A New API - Dadisi Sanyika, Board President, CD Foundation

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:25am - 9:30am EDT

Central Park West 6501

Speakers

Dadisi Sanyika

Board President, CD Foundation

Dadisi is a CI/CD leader within Apple, he leads the Apple Services Engineering Spinnaker Development Team. He has focused the past 9 years on improving the developer experience. He has a passion for building purpose-driven communities. His open source community work includes CDF Interoperability... Read More →

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:25am - 9:30am EDT
Central Park West 6501

Keynote Sessions

9:30am EDT

Keynote: Undiscovered Country - Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director, FINOS & General Manager, Linux Foundation Europe

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:30am - 9:35am EDT

Central Park West 6501

Speakers

Gabriele Columbro

Executive Director / General Manager, FINOS / Linux Foundation Europe

Gabriele is an open source technologist at heart. He spent over 15 years building developer ecosystems to deliver value through open source across Europe and the US. He thrives on driving innovation both contributing to open source communities and joining commercial open source ventures... Read More →

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:30am - 9:35am EDT
Central Park West 6501

Keynote Sessions

9:35am EDT

Keynote to be Announced

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:35am - 9:40am EDT

Central Park West 6501

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:35am - 9:40am EDT
Central Park West 6501

Keynote Sessions

9:40am EDT

Coffee Break

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:40am - 9:50am EDT

Foyer

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:40am - 9:50am EDT
Foyer

Special Events/Exhibits/Breaks

9:50am EDT

How to Build an OSPO: Speed-Mentoring

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:50am - 11:45am EDT

Central Park East 6501

The first step in the OSPO journey is learning how to build an OPSO from mentors who have built a variety of types of OSPOs for all kinds of missions. OSPOs are more than just open source; they are about community. This workshop introduces attendees to the wider OSPO community through mentors, who will share the best practices, guides, and tools used by OSPO practitioners today and interactively share their first-hand knowledge of lessons learned in building, operating, and tasking OSPOs.

Speakers

Brian Proffitt

Senior Principal Community Architect, Red Hat

Brian Proffitt is the Principal Community Analyst for Open Source and Standards team at Red Hat. A former technology journalist, Brian is also an adjunct instructor at the University of Notre Dame. Follow him on Twitter at: @TheTechScribe

Ruth Suehle

EVP, Apache Software Foundation & Director of Open Source, SAS

Nithya Ruff

Chair, Board of Directors / Head, Open Source Program Office, The Linux Foundation / Amazon

Gabriele Columbro

Executive Director / General Manager, FINOS / Linux Foundation Europe

Jacob Green

Co-founder, OSPO++

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:50am - 11:45am EDT
Central Park East 6501

Building OSPOs

9:50am EDT

Scaling Community Collaboration: Cities, Communities, Public Administrations - Moderated by Sachiko Muto, OFE & Jacob Green, OSPO++

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:50am - 11:45am EDT

Radio City 6604

This session explores the how’s, why’s, and impacts of cooperation through open source code, leveraging OSPOs as an office of cooperation that brings together local communities, cities and municipalities, and national governments to solve common challenges together. Examples of existing methods and programs for cooperation with communities will be presented. Presenters will inform & present to attendees, and then engage in robust unscripted discussions between themselves as a group.

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Speakers

Lindsay J Thompson

Professor, Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School

Sachiko Muto

Chairman, Senior Researcher, OpenForum Europe, RISE

Sachiko Muto is the Chief Executive Officer of OpenForum Europe (OFE), a Brussels-based think tank that promotes openness in ICT and a level playing field for open source software. She originally joined OFE in 2007 and served for several years as Director with responsibility for government... Read More →

Danielle Smith

Syracuse University

Ben Cerveny

President, Foundation for Public Code

Jacob Green

Co-founder, OSPO++

Bastien Guerry

Head of the Free Software unit at DINUM, Interministerial Digital Directorate (FR Gov)

I'm a developer, I contribute to the GNU project and I promote the use of Free Software within the French public administration.

Wilfred Pinfold

OpenCommons

Wilfred Pinfold is the Chief Executive Officer of urban.systems Inc, a company that builds vibrant communities using technology to facilitate civic engagement, deliver services and share resources. He is also President of OpenCommons a 501c6 membership non-profit working closely with... Read More →

Alex Smolianitski

Kurt Garloff

Hans Dols

CERN

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:50am - 11:45am EDT
Radio City 6604

Infrastructure

9:50am EDT

Open Source & Friends: Mapping Our "For Good" Community - Presenters to be Announced Shortly

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:50am - 11:45am EDT

Central Park West 6501

In this interactive workshop, we will take stock of the many types of projects, programs, initiatives, and groups that may build, support, or leverage open source "for good". The goal of our workshop is to create an initial visual representation of our larger network of friends who share similar goals of using technology to make the world better. Many types of items may appear on this map, including open source software projects, mentoring and educational programs, policy initiatives, legal-focused activities, sustainability efforts, and more. At the end of this workshop we will have a community resource that could be updated and maintained over time to help each other make connections and build partnerships.

Thursday July 11, 2024 9:50am - 11:45am EDT
Central Park West 6501

OSS Community

11:45am EDT

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees)

Thursday July 11, 2024 11:45am - 12:45pm EDT

Special Events/Exhibits/Breaks

12:45pm EDT

Define and Measure the Value of Working In the Open - Moderated by Georg Link, Bitergia & Stephanie Lieggi, UC Santa Cruz

Thursday July 11, 2024 12:45pm - 2:35pm EDT

Central Park West 6501

This workshop will guide you through a process of defining what success looks like for your OSPO and how to find relevant metrics. This is a process every organization needs to go through, but there are resources available to help. We will connect you with relevant projects in open source that have established standards worth building on like best practices and metric definitions.

Speakers

Georg Link

Open Source Strategist, Bitergia

Georg Link is an Open Source Strategist. Georg’s mission is to make open source more professional in its use of community metrics and analytics. Georg co-founded the Linux Foundation CHAOSS Project to advance analytics and metrics for open source project health. Georg is an active... Read More →

Lindsay J Thompson

Professor, Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School

Sophia Vargas

Research Analyst, Google

Sophia Vargas is a Program Manager in the research and education team within Google’s Open Source Programs Office. In this role she leads efforts that span project health, contributor experience, and open source economics. She is also on the Governing Board and an active contributor... Read More →

Stephanie Lieggi

Executive Director, UCSC OSPO and CROSS, UC Santa Cruz

Stephanie Lieggi is executive director for the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) and the UC Santa Cruz Open Source Program Office (OSPO). In her current roles she supports the work of academic-based open source projects and enables a sustainable contributor base... Read More →

Arun Gupta

Vice President and General Manager for Open Ecosystem, Intel

Arun Gupta is vice president and general manager of Open Ecosystem Initiatives at Intel Corporation. He is an open source strategist, advocate, and practitioner for over two decades. He has taken companies such as Apple, Amazon, and Sun Microsystems through systemic changes to embrace... Read More →

Vladimir Filkov

University of California, Davis

Ana Jiminéz Santamaria

OSPO Project Manager, Linux Foundation, TODO Group

Ana is the OSPO Program Manager at the Linux Foundation project TODO Group, formed by an open community of practitioners who aim to create and share knowledge and collaborate on practices, tools, and other ways to run successful and effective Open Source Program Offices. Formerly... Read More →

Cynthia Lo

Program Manager, GitHub

Cynthia is program manager with a background in project management and process improvement. Currently she leads the Skills-Based Volunteering program at GitHub.

Wilfred Pinfold

OpenCommons

Thursday July 11, 2024 12:45pm - 2:35pm EDT
Central Park West 6501

Building OSPOs

12:45pm EDT

Continuing the OSPOs-for-Good Conversation - Presenters to be Announced Shortly

Thursday July 11, 2024 12:45pm - 2:35pm EDT

Radio City 6604

An Open Source Community Discussion and Unconference following the UN’s OPSOs-for-Good Conference. Topics discussed in the UN conference will be reviewed via general discussions and smaller breakout groups. The discussions will focus on the impacts and opportunities.

Thursday July 11, 2024 12:45pm - 2:35pm EDT
Radio City 6604

Infrastructure

12:45pm EDT

Open-Source AI: What Is It, Why Does It Matter, and How to Ensure Responsible Openness - Moderated by Mer Joyce, Do Big Good & Lea Gimpel, Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA)

Thursday July 11, 2024 12:45pm - 2:35pm EDT

Central Park East 6501

Learn all about the ongoing efforts to define open-source AI and how to make it a powerful tool to help attain the SDGs by putting responsible practices and SDG relevance at the core of AI DPGs. We will start with an introduction to open-source AI and why it matters, especially in the context of global inequalities and democratizing AI’s benefits. We will then dive into the collaborative process of defining open-source AI, spearheaded by the Open Source Initiative, and share the current version of the definition of open-source AI (OSAI). Building on top of this, we will discuss how to ensure the ethical and responsible openness of AI - a key aspect of AI systems as digital public goods (DPGs) and share relevant examples. The session will end with a participatory discussion of the core challenges to defining and implementing open-source AI.

Lea Gimpel, the Director of AI of the Digital Public Good Alliance, will introduce open-source AI and explain how it matters. Mer Joyce, the facilitator of the Open Source Initiative’s co-design process to define OSAI, will present that collaborative process and share the current version of the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID). Lea will then discuss her organization’s work to build ethical and responsible AI practices on top of the OSAID. The session will end with a participatory discussion of the core challenges to defining and implementing open-source AI.

Speakers

Ofer Hermoni

Generative AI Commons, Education & Outreach Chair, Linux Foundation AI&Data

Alexander Hradecky

Vineet Singh

Mer Joyce

Founder, Do Big Good LLC

Mer Joyce (she/her) is the founder of the co-design firm Do Big Good and is the facilitator of the Open Source Initiative's consultative process to co-design the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID). She has over a decade of international experience at the intersection of research, tech... Read More →

Lea Gimpel

Director of AI and Country Engagement, Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA)

Lea is the Director of AI at the Digital Public Goods Alliance. Previously, she co-led the GIZ program "FAIR Forward - Artificial Intelligence for All" which aims to democratize AI development by enabling access to open AI training datasets, amongst others. She holds two Master's... Read More →

Thursday July 11, 2024 12:45pm - 2:35pm EDT
Central Park East 6501

OSS Community

2:35pm EDT

Coffee Break

Thursday July 11, 2024 2:35pm - 3:05pm EDT

Special Events/Exhibits/Breaks

3:05pm EDT

OSPOs for Good: Dialog on Impact - Presenters to be Announced Shortly

Thursday July 11, 2024 3:05pm - 5:00pm EDT

Radio City 6604

Close the day’s journey with impact. By joining in a creative dialog on what achieving impact through OSPO’s might and could look like across sectors and across initiatives

Thursday July 11, 2024 3:05pm - 5:00pm EDT
Radio City 6604

Building OSPOs

3:05pm EDT

Open Source Infrastructure for Social Good - Moderated by Jake Watson, Digital Impact Alliance

Thursday July 11, 2024 3:05pm - 5:00pm EDT

Central Park West 6501

This session strips back the jargon of terms like digital public goods, digital commons, and digital public infrastructure to focus more holistically on the challenges governments face in using open source infrastructure for social good. In doing so, and in the spirit of community and cooperation, the session will consider open source infrastructure from many points of view, both as the code itself and the applications of code, as well as the organizational and policy infrastructure to support reuse of open source technologies.

The agenda is as follows:

Government Panel Discussion

Moderator: Jonathan Lloyd, DPGA
Anir Chowdhury, a2i
Adriana Groh, Sovereign Tech Fund

Technology Panel Discussion

Moderator: Jake Watson, DIAL
Ruth Ikegah, CHAOSS/OSPO Now
Robert MacTavish, Primero/Unicef
Brian Behlendorf, Open Wallet

Development Cooperation Panel Discussion

Moderator: Nick Gates, OFE
Nico Luck, GovStack
Fui Meng Liew, Unicef
Julia Vieira, IADB

Speakers

Brian Behlendorf

Chief Technology Officer, Open Wallet Foundation

Brian is currently the Chief AI Strategy advisor for the Linux Foundation, as well as CTO for the OpenWallet Foundation. Brian has served most recently as General Manager of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), has served as Executive Director of Hyperledger, and formerly... Read More →

Ruth Ikegah

Community and Programs Manager, CHAOSS

Ruth Ikegah is a Backend Developer, Technical Writer, and GitHub Star. She is sparked about making the onboarding process scalable in teams.

Julia Vieira

Inter-American Development Bank

Robert MacTavish

UNICEF, Primero

Nico Lück

GovStack

Fui Meng Liew

UNICEF

Anir Chowdhury

Policy Advisor, a2i Bangladesh

Jake Watson

Sr. Director of Tools and Technology, Digital Impact Alliance

Jake is the Senior Director of Tools and Technology at the Digital Impact Alliance. With over 25 years' experience in the humanitarian, international development, for-profit and non-profit sectors, he specializes in maximizing the positive impact technology can have in support of... Read More →

Nicholas Gates

OFE

Jonathan Lloyd

Director of Advocacy, Digital Public Goods Alliance

Thursday July 11, 2024 3:05pm - 5:00pm EDT
Central Park West 6501

Infrastructure

3:05pm EDT

Safeguarding Our Public Goods, For Everyone - Moderated by Omkhar Arasaratnam, OpenSSF

Thursday July 11, 2024 3:05pm - 5:00pm EDT

Central Park East 6501

In this session, we will discuss perils that open source faces and what we can do about them. Get insights from keynote speaker Aeva Black, Section Chief of Open Source Security at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). For the conversation, we invited experts in the field to panels on these topics "Hardening our open source supply chain", "Making open source secure and sustainable", and "How can we make OSS maintainers' lives easier?".

The exact workshop agenda is as follows:
3:00-3:05 PM
Opening Remarks - Omkhar Arasaratnam, OpenSSF

3:05-3:25 PM
Keynote - Aeva Black, CISA

3:30-3:55 PM
Panel Discussion - Hardening Our Open Source Supply Chain

Vincent Danen, Red Hat
Stephanie Domas, Canoncial
Craig McLuckie, Stacklok
Zach Steindler, Github
Umesh Shankar, Google

4:00-4:25 PM
Panel Discussion - Making Open Source Secure and Sustainable

Fiona Krakenbürger, STF
Stephen Augustus, Cisco
Dan Applequist, Samsung
David Hook, Keyfactor

4:30-4:55 PM
Panel Discussion - How Can We Make OSS Maintainers Lives Easier?

Giulia Fanti, CMU
Supriya Chitale, IKEA
JR Rao, IBM
Justin Cappos, NYU
William Woodruff, Trail of Bits

4:55-5:00 PM
Closing Remarks - Arun Gupta, Intel

Speakers

Supriya Chitale

Open Source Program Office Manager, IKEA

Supriya Chitale is heading the Open Source Program Office at IKEA. She has 20 years of experience in software industry with specialization in topics related to Open Source and InnerSource. Having worked across the globe, her passion is for developing people and teams, strategic planning... Read More →

Daniel Appelquist

Open Source Strategist, Samsung

Dan Appelquist is a web & mobile industry veteran and long-time participant and leader in open source and open standards. He has been co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group for the last ten years and is also a member of the OpenSSF Technical Advisory Council. He co-founded... Read More →

J.R. Rao

Fellow and CTO, Security Research, IBM

J.R. Rao is an IBM Fellow and CTO for the Security Research team at IBM. Based at the IBM Thomas. J. Watson Research Center, the global team comprises more than 200 researchers who work in the areas of Cybersecurity, Cloud and Systems Security, AI Security, Information Security and... Read More →

Vincent Danen

Vice President of Product Security, Red Hat

Vincent Danen is the Vice President of Product Security at Red Hat, which is responsible for security and compliance activities for all Red Hat products and services. Vincent has been involved with open source and software security for over 20 years, leading security teams and participating... Read More →

Zach Steindler

Principal Engineer at GitHub, GitHub

Zach is slowly learning more about gardening and welding. When he's at the keyboard he likes working on home automation, biking, and helping secure open source software. A housing inspector once called his electrical work "amateurish".

Arun Gupta

Vice President and General Manager for Open Ecosystem, Intel

Omkhar Arasaratnam

General Manager, OpenSSF

Omkhar is a dad, husband and General Manager of the OpenSSF. He has been involved with Open Source for 25 years, and Cybersecurity for 20. Since May 1, Omkhar has been the General Manager for the OpenSSF - focused on improving the security of our open source software supply chain... Read More →

Stephen Augustus

Head of Open Source, Cisco

Fiona Krakenbürger

Co-Founder, Sovereign Tech Fund

Fiona Krakenbürger is one of the co-founders of the Sovereign Tech Fund, an organization dedicated to strengthening the Open Source ecosystem in the public interest. Fiona Krakenbürger has worked in Berlin and Washington D.C., managing and leading funds and initiatives at the intersection... Read More →

Justin Cappos

Professor, New York University

Justin Cappos is an associate professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at New York University. Justin is a creator of five Linux Foundation projects, including TUF, Uptane, gittuf, SBOMit, and in-toto. He leads the security assessment process for the CNCF and... Read More →

Craig McLuckie

Co-founder and CEO, Stacklok

Craig is co-founder and CEO of Stacklok, a startup building community centric OSS capabilities to secure the OSS supply chain. Previously he worked at Google and was the founding product lead for Google Compute Engine. He also co-founded the Kubernetes project and bootstrapped the... Read More →

Aeva Black

Section Chief, Open Source Security, CISA

Aeva Black is an open source hacker, advocate, and international public speaker with over 20 years of experience building digital infrastructure and leading open source projects at technology companies. She is the Section Chief for Open Source Security at CISA, and serves as the Secretary... Read More →

William Woodruff

Engineering Director, Trail of Bits

William Woodruff is an Engineering Director at Trail of Bits, a NYC-based cybersecurity consultancy. He currently splits his time between open source engineering (primarily supply chain and cryptographic engineering) and running the Ecosystem Security group, which is responsible for... Read More →

Umesh Shankar

Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technologist, Google Cloud Security

Umesh Shankar is a Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technologist for Google Cloud Security. He leads many cross-cutting initiatives across security SaaS products and GCP, notably the application of AI to security and securing AI. In his 18 years at Google, Umesh has led a number of... Read More →

Giulia Fanti

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Giulia Fanti is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests span the security, privacy, and efficiency of distributed systems. She is a two-time fellow of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on... Read More →

Stephanie Domas

Chief Information Security Officer, Canonical

Having started her career with over 10 years of ethical hacking, reverse engineering, and advanced vulnerability analysis, Stephanie has a deep knowledge and passion for the hacker mindset. Stephanie is currently the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Canonical, the creators... Read More →

David Hook

VP Software Engineering, Legion of the Bouncy Castle, Keyfactor

David has been working on Cryptography APIs and secure protocols since the mid-1990s and in IT and open-source since the mid-1980s. He is a founder and still active committer of the Legion of the Bouncy Castle Cryptography project which began in the year 2000 and provides APIs in... Read More →

Thursday July 11, 2024 3:05pm - 5:00pm EDT
Central Park East 6501

OSS Community